Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-28

treat trespassing cats and dogs as beasts of prey.
 There is already some talk about the Re- publican nomination for governor next year. Mayor Bulkeley of Hartford naturally has the most prominent mention.
 Canon Fleming's confession that he took a part of one of Dr. Talmage's sermons "by peradvertence" is probably true. It is not to be supposed that he would take it in any other way.
 The Chicago Herald does not hesitate to declare that in casting around for place to go fishing Mir. Cleveland should take into solemn consideration the advantages offered by the government at Chicago.
 That is notable literary partnership which has been formed between Julian Flaw thorne and Inspector Thomas ByrIes, chief of the New York Detective bureau. Some "tall" stories will doubtless flow from it.
 The explanation by the captain of the Vicksburg Southrons that as 8 white militia officer he could not bear to let the President of the United States see his company placed on an equality with negroes" shows him to be a very sensitive if not very sensible man.
 The Secretary of State, MT. L. M. Hub bard, deserves and will receive much praise for having the Public Acts printed and dis tributed SO soon after the ending of the ses- sion of the legislature. The lawyers and others interested used to get tired waiting for their appearance.
 Those who are insuring property in New Hampshire have learned something fron re- cent experiences. They have decided that it is expedient to appoint a board of inspec- tion to examine all the manufacturing risks in the State as often as once in three months, and secure the correction of such defects as may exist in them.
 Brick sidewalks are going out of use in Phil adelphia, and are being superseded by flag, cinderlithic, granolithic and artificial stone of various kinds. The objection to brick pavement is that it wears uneven and retains moisture. The cinderlithic pavement is composed of iron and cement and costs a third more than brick, but never disinte- grates and becomes harder by use. The granolithic pavement differs from the cinder- lithic in substituting granite for iron. The attempt to get the legislature of Mas sachusetts to repeal so much of the civil service act as applies to laborers in the city of Boston has been a failure, as it ought to have been. The purpose of the act, so far as It relates to laborers, was to correct the abuses which had grown up under the city government. The employment of these men was made to depend upon partisanship and favoritism. Under the compulsion of party committees the officials who employed laborers were made to distribute among eer- tain persons, who were recognized as having claims to favor, a number of tickets equal to l the number of laborers to be employed, and these tickets were frequently sold to men who wanted work, and who were thus com pelled to pay these political swindlers for the privilege of working for the city. Edward Gary has something to say in the current issue of the Forum on "An Evil in | the schools" which deserves attention. He closes his article with the following impress i've paragraph: Is it far cry from the teach ing of children under 12 to the condition of the popular mind that makes so many political and social | evils possible? Not at all. The connection is direct and intimate. The
 indiscipline of the general mind, it's gullibil